Where was I?  On July 14*, 2005 Postcrossing launched.  I’ve missed out on 4+ years of this incredible project?!  The horror!  From their about page:
The goal of this project is to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world, for free. Well, almost free! The main idea is that: if you send a [...]

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This issue of Vile, number 7- Winter 1979, is really the crowning jewel (it’s also the most difficult to photograph– the paper is awfully fragile and, since it’s bound with a metal tab nearly impossible to open completely).  Made in an addition of 300, this issue includes original works from artists who used rubber stamps.

Note: [...]

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In honor of women’s history month, issue number 6 of Vile Magazine features mail art by many, many women artists.  This issue includes a substantial essay from Anna Banana in which she reflects on her position as a female artist in the 1970s, postal art’s accessibility to marginalized artists, and her perspective on the sub-genres [...]

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VILE magazine, International Double Issue, p. 91

We all know the difficulties it causes to receive the lot of mail we do every day.
That postal authorities have managed to get any item from one address to another is of course not intolerable, but the items themselves derived from and deprived of the postal reference must concern [...]

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Several years ago I received five issues of Vile Magazine as a gift from a colleague.   He packaged up all 5 copies he owns (the complete volume 3) and a few other things which I’ll share later.  Honestly, it was one of the most generous, kindest gifts I’ve ever received.  Exactly the kind of [...]

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“Mail Cart” in Computationally.Intractable’s Flickr stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.

These lines came from a poem quoted in The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance and attributed to James Beaton c. 1840.
Something I want to write upon, to scare away each vapour—
The ” Penny Postage” shall I try ? Why, yes, I’ll write on paper.
Thy great [...]

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Ever since I made Liz stationery last week I can’t stop thinking about monograms.  I’ve seriously been staying away thinking about how my friends’ initials might tangle up nicely and what colors they’d like.  Everyone is getting monogrammed notes for their birthdays this year…  There are a lot of rules for monogramming but I quite [...]

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I really need to spend some time dealing with the camera settings– for some reason the colors lately have been way, way off.  These aren’t really as… saturated? as they look in these photos.

My Valentines this year are a bit… avant garde?  I actually can’t really tell if I like them all that much.  On [...]

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“(89/365) One day this will be extinct” in Sarah G.’s Flickr Stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.
I came across this passage in Posting It and just had to share it with you all:
[Anthony Trollope's character, Jemima Stanbury], placed little confidence in [pillar post boxes]: ‘She had not the faintest belief that any letter put into one [...]

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This was a semi-impulsive Ebay purchase… there was a “pop off” and I should’ve held back.  But did I?  No.
HOW COULD I LET THIS BEAUTY OUT OF MY GRASP?!
Ahem. I don’t know much about the Postal Service Station made by the American Adjustomatic Corp– clearly a precursor to today’s APC.  It seems to have been [...]

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